Some odds and ends from people who like developing small but interesting apps: * SMS vote counter by Dave Glover, could be nice for teaching, education and conferences wanting small scale votes without needing to outsource. * Wiki for pocket pc and desktop bLADE wiki, developed by Dale Lane (who also released a nice del.icio.us plugin for pocket ie Other random other links: * Stephen Fry writes an interesting blog, and knows his mobile device history * mms over email - NueMMS which relies on pktpix who forward emails to (phonenumber)@pktpix.com via MMS * cool web design for a Microsoft conference (via BinaryJam (not that I'll have an interest in coding using silverlight), but the website header is nice. (and I note that it works in Safari, Firefox and IE -- unlike the web app framework that the conference is all about) In other news, our "music" playing neighbour has been a lot quieter ever since a visit from a rather grumpy Louis, to explain in detail why he doesn't really like European dance music and drum and bass. He was quite persuasive in the only way he knows how. * xkcd on dealing with noisy neighbours * xkcd on grapefruit, and a response: grapefruit on xkcd (via Nielsen Hayden).